KELETHIN

In the trees of the Greater Faydark forest on the northern half
of the continent of Faydwer

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Races:

Wood Elf, Half-Elves

Guilds:

Bard, Druid, Ranger, Rogue, Warrior

Religious Facilities:

none

Artisan Facilities:

Brewery, Forge, Kiln, Oven, Pottery Wheel

Description

Kelethin is one of the most amazing cities in all of Norrath, a tree
city built peacefully around the trunks of the giant trees of the Greater
Faydark. I was seeking Bards in this part of the world, and a fellow traveller
who gave me directions told me to not look at my feet, but I had no idea
what he meant until I saw the bottoms of dozens of wooden platforms sticking
out of the mist. This is the ancestral home of the wood elves, and the
center of their society. Elevators can be raised and lowered to the surrounding
forest floor from some of the lower platforms, allowing easy access for
the wood elves and protection from those they would rather not have visiting.

Surrounding Areas

The area surrounding Kelethin is swarming with life. Black wolves, wasp
drones, and bats move through the forest, and provide the targets for
many a budding archer from the city above. The nearby orc city of Crushbone
also sends scouts occasionally as far as Kelethin, but they have never
gained a foothold on the city's platforms themselves.

Further from the main city lies the entrance to Crushbone itself. The
orcs have made camps ringing the entrance and many heroes (and corpses)
have been made by fighting the large orc families that live here. Faeries
also move through the woods, but they will leave the average traveller
alone unless they are known to hunt faerie-kin. The nearby smaller forest
of Lesser Faydark holds the portal to the land of both the gnomes and
is inhabited by more ferocious orcs and other, more horrible creatures.
The dwarven city of Kaladim lies through the Butcherblock Mountains and
their dangers.

Travelling To and From
Kelethin

Kelethin is one of the four major cities on the continent of Faydwer,
the others being the cities of the high elves, the dwarves, and the gnomes.
They share Greater Faydark with the high elves, although the high elf
city of Felwithea is almost exactly the opposite of Kelethin, being a
grand and opulent city on the outside, and simple and beautiful on the
inside. The gnome city of Ak'Anon and the dwarven city of Kaladim are
both a short distance away, the first through the sparsely populated forest
of Lesser Faydark, and the second through the stretches of the Butcherblock
Mountains.

As far as travelling abroad, Kelethin is about as far from a port as
you can be on this island, and the trip from Kaladim's port to the human
city of Freeport is a long and boring one. There is a set of magical gates
near the pass to Lesser Faydark that powerful mages are rumored to be
able to travel with, but they have been inactive for quite some time.

Local Color

Places

The city itself is really the site to see when you are in Kelethin. It
is incredible to an outsider (although I'm part elf myself) that these
wood elves live and work on platforms with no rails or protection from
falls to the ground below. Although personally not afraid of heights,
my barbarian friend who made the trip to this city with me refused to
ride the elevator to the platforms and curled up in a bush below to await
my return. I can't say that I blame him.

People

The people of Kelethin are a quiet folk. They are sequestered away in
Greater Faydark, and since the population reveres nature as a rule, it
would be difficult to find any of the poachers or other misusers of the
gifts in Kelethin. It pains my human half to say it, but I feel that elves
are one of the truly beautiful races in Norrath, and this peaceful city
is a faint reflection of an inner peace and harmony that we all could
learn from.